Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
AI, augmented analytics, quantum computing, and blockchain are among technologies that soon could dominate the IT landscape, according to Gartner’s annual Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends.
The latest version of Windows Server has reached general availability, so subscribers who haven’t already given it a test drive should check out new security, redundancy, management and SDN features.
Gartner says changing corporate culture is but one area business leaders need to master – developing privacy, artificial intelligence plans matter, too
Myriad industries from technology to space and sports mourn passing of multifaceted icon Paul Allen
Huawei's artificial intelligence (AI) strategy is not just chips, but a full-stack portfolio, including chips, cloud services, and products.
DNS Root KSK rollover happened Oct. 11 and will tighten security for the internet’s address book
A new IDC study shows private cloud spending increased 28.2 percent year over year. Off-premises private cloud, in particular, is seeing strong growth.
Off-brand server competitors to Dell and HPE have gained traction with Amazon and Google, but enterprise data centers are reluctant to follow
Juniper has put significant investment into network automation development by introducing training programs, cloud-based lab services, testing as a service, and the new Juniper Engineering Network
For decades, network professionals needed to know router protocols and command-line interfaces, but with the advent of programmable networks, in order to advance in their careers it may be prudent to get training writing code.
A Walmart patent application suggests putting IoT sensors in shopping-cart handles. Will customers be OK with that?
Wi-Fi experts share best practices for establishing and maintaining optimal WLAN performance
Gurus from Cisco, Aruba, Ekahau, Extreme and Mist share ways to speed your Wi-Fi network
Intel reveals its FPGA strategy, which includes the Stratix 10 and Arria 10 chips, a Storefront for FPGA workloads, and support for VMware vSphere.
The Wi-Fi alliance has changed the naming scheme for Wi-Fi standards, abandoning the 802.11 designations for simpler names like Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 5, Wi-Fi 4, etc., but that may gloss over some of the finer points of the old IEEE system.
Data capture, data governance, and availability of services are among the biggest challenges IT will face in creating an IoT analytics environment.
Intel and AMD are proclaiming massive performance records, although in both cases they come with an asterisk next to them.
Open source networking has become the 'new norm,' and many at the recent Open Networking Summit Europe said they’re seeing it play out in the industry.
Cisco Webex says some latency, connectivity problems persist a week after the outage
Computing icon and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak talked about AI, IoT and more at the 2018 Fog World Congress
Cisco’s Container Platform will work with SAP’s Data Hub to integrate large data sets that may be in public clouds such as Amazon Web Services, Hadoop, Microsoft or Google.
LinkedIn offers to “open source” hardware designs it created to lower costs and speed up its data center deployment.
Cisco says the Duo deal will help customers securely connect any user to any application on any network.
A new partnership between AT&T and startup Dedrone could bring drone defense to mainstream industry. But do we really need it?
Aerohive, ASUS and D-Link readying networking devices that take advantage of 802.11ax speed
Cisco details security problems in its IOS and IOS XE switch and router operating software and warns on Linux flaw impact
Our monthly roundup of IoT news includes a proposed ban on default passwords for connected devices, IoT-specific carrier services and a chip set that could underpin more powerful yet inexpensive IoT endpoints.
Hitachi Vantara launched a wide range of new hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) systems, software management, and automation tools at its Hitachi Next 2018 conference.
Cisco’s Webex services on the mend after outage shuts down meeting, videoconferencing services
High-speed Ethernet demos from Arista, Cisco, Juniper, Intel, Huawei and others portend a strong, looming 400G Ethernet future.
The Fedora 29 beta release is ready for downloading and testing, including new support for containers and better performance on Arm machines.
With increasing distance between servers and data centers, fiber will do what copper can’t.
Enterprises are still unsure about 5G’s potential, while network providers say ‘help us help you’
Years after Sarah Sharp stepped down from her direct work in the Linux kernel community because of abusive behavior, Linus Torvalds has stepped away and the community adopted a Code of Conduct.
A former Intel executive has launched a broadside attack against her former employer and created Ampere Computing, which develops ARM-based chips for the data center.
ICANN will soon begin implementing DNS Root KSK rollover to bolster internet’s address book
GCT Semiconductor and LPWA network provider Sigfox announced a multi-mode, hybrid, LTE combo Sigfox chip that they say will save IoT applications money.
With new momentum and Intel reeling, AMD is targeting virtualization upgrades.
HCI vendor Scale Computing and power management specialist APC join forces to offer turnkey micro data centers designed for edge computing deployments.
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is entering a new stage to one where enterprises are testing the technology, with predictive maintenance as the starting point for many, says Chris Nelson, VP of engineering at OSIsoft.
The fancy new medical and fitness features in the Apple Watch Series 4 can’t hide the fact that the device is retreating from mainstream business.
Lenovo and NetApp's storage alliance, joint venture in China, and new series of all-flash and hybrid flash products put them both in a much stronger position in the data center against rivals Dell EMC and HPE.
Nvidi's T4 GPU will appear in Google products, gains support from Cisco, Dell EMC, Fujitsu, HPE, IBM, Oracle and SuperMicro.
Supermicro's all-SSD unit is pizza box-thin but has massive capacity and throughput.
Initial, upcoming 5G is going to be a disappointment, a University of Oulu researcher says. 6G, with frequencies up to terahertz, will be needed for true microsecond latency and unlimited bandwidth.
Dell EMC has teamed up with BlueData, provider of the EPIC self-service, container-based software platform
